Sundance Review: The Eight Mountains is a Frustrating Portrait of Masculinity Captured with Great Beauty

Sundance Review: The Eight Mountains is a Frustrating Portrait of Masculinity Captured with Great Beauty

The Jury Prize went to Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch’s The Eight Mountains , which concerns the end of a friendship between two men who meet as boys during a summer that marks them for the rest of their lives.

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‘Disco Boy’, co-production financed by Italy- France grant, in competition at the Berlinale

Disco Boy , debut film from Giacomo Abbruzzese is the only Italian film in competition at the upcoming Berlin International Film Festival.

Co-produced with Italy’s Dugong Films, it will be distributed in Italy by Lucky Red from 9 March. Shot in Europe and Africa with an international cast, the film is a French/Italian/Belgian/Polish coproduction.

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Rotterdam: Italy’s Lyda Patitucci on the Female Gaze in Atmospheric Noir ‘Like Sheep Among Wolves’ – Watch Clip 

Rotterdam: Italy’s Lyda Patitucci on the Female Gaze in Atmospheric Noir ‘Like Sheep Among Wolves’ – Watch Clip

Lyda Patitucci, whose first feature “Like Sheep Among Wolves” is launching from the Rotterdam Film Festival’s Harbor section, represents a rare case of an Italian female filmmaker who cut her teeth in the genre movie trenches.

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